Search warrants; prohibition on no-knock search warrants. (HB5099)

Introduced By

Del. Lashrecse D. Aird (D-Petersburg) with support from co-patrons Del. Lamont Bagby (D-Richmond), and Del. Joe Lindsey (D-Norfolk)

Progress

✓	Introduced
✓	Passed Committee
✓	Passed House
☐	Passed Senate
☐	Signed by Governor
☐	Became Law

Description

Search warrants; prohibition on no-knock search warrants. Prohibits any law-enforcement officer from seeking, executing, or participating in the execution of a no-knock search warrant, defined in the bill as any search warrant executed without law-enforcement officers giving notice of their identity, authority, and purpose prior to entering the place to be searched. The bill requires a law-enforcement officer to provide notice of his identity, authority, and purpose prior to entering the place to be searched and states that, after entering and securing the place to be searched and prior to undertaking any search or seizure pursuant to the search warrant, the executing officer shall read and give a copy of the search warrant to the person to be searched or the owner of the place to be searched or, if the owner is not present, to any occupant of the place to be searched. If the place to be searched is unoccupied, the executing law-enforcement officer shall leave a copy of the search warrant suitably affixed to the place to be searched. Read the Bill »

Status

09/16/2020: passed committee

History

Date	Action
08/20/2020	Presented and ordered printed 20200549D
08/20/2020	Committee
08/20/2020	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
08/26/2020	Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (14-Y 7-N) (see vote tally)
08/28/2020	Read first time
09/03/2020	Read second time
09/03/2020	Committee amendment agreed to
09/03/2020	Engrossed by House as amended HB5099E
09/03/2020	Printed as engrossed 20200549D-E
09/04/2020	Read third time and passed House (56-Y 41-N)
09/04/2020	VOTE: Passage (56-Y 41-N) (see vote tally)
09/09/2020	Constitutional reading dispensed
09/09/2020	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
09/16/2020	Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
09/16/2020	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 4-N) (see vote tally)
09/16/2020	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
09/16/2020	Committee substitute printed 20201186D-S1